@Background Pony #79FA
I agree with that.

Changeling are so cute 🥰.

@mjangelvortex  
It helps too that dogs and humans are both pack hunters by nature. Working together to hunt prey is par for the course for both of us :D

@Badumsquish  
Yeah, both dogs and cats are partially color blind so that’s a really good point. We can see things they can’t but they can smell and hear things we can’t.

@mjangelvortex  
A big one with dogs is they can only see yellow and blue, while we see red, green, and blue:  
 
We can see through camouflage better, like a bird hiding in the bushes might be invisible to a dog but a human would be able to see it :D

@Badumsquish  
I knew that we bred and raised dogs to overcome our weaknesses but I never really knew or even considered that we also helped them with their weaknesses too. But I guess that applies to cats and some other pets too.

@Background Pony #3C46  
First case ever of selective breeding, and before that was even an intentional concept. Canines that that favorable traits were the ones kept around and bred, so those traits became dominant. Apparently too being around dogs for so long actually skewed the evolution of humans as well. I read somewhere the reason humans instinctively want to pet animals is because the behavior was drilled into us from our interactions with canines :D

@Badumsquish  
Well, dogs have always been humans’ friends, because we took wolves with those traits and bred them that way, until we eventually got dogs.

@Background Pony #3C46  
Dogs on the other hand became our bros. We see a far wider color spectrum than they do but they see better contrasts, so we hunt better in the day and they hunt better in the evenings, so together we could greatly broaden our hunting periods. Also humans can track over long distances via technique while dogs can track over shorter distances by scent. Basically, literally everything dogs and humans are good at compliments the other’s weaknesses :D

@Badumsquish  
Yeah, that’s pretty much how it went. Humans started developing agriculture about 10,000 years ago, but that attracted vermin like mice and rats, which was a big problem, but then cats came along, started eating the rodents and pretty much just domesticated themselves.

@BellyButtonsAreMagic  
It’s pretty much how humans and cats came together, if this one article I read is to be believed. Apparently humans never intently “tamed” cats. They showed up near groups of humans to go after vermin. The humans were like “Hey these little animals are killing the vermin” and the cats were like “Hey these big animals aren’t attacking us yet keep other predators at bay”.

@Badumsquish  
We’d cuddle them and they’d be content in co-existing.

@jfluffy  
We’re adaptable in spirit too though. We look at something and think “How can we use this to our advantage?” and “How can we neutralize any threats it poses?”. Heck, it’s why I honestly think if there was a war between ponies and humans, even with all the magic and abilities the ponies have, that the humans would kick their asses and swiftly. Ponies would hit humans with everything they had, and humans would adapt and overcome.

@jfluffy  
Honestly I would expect a simple blood test to reveal any changeling, but that is assuming that pieces of them that become detached don’t stay transformed.

@Badumsquish  
I cannot disagree that humans are adaptable, but that adaptability is mostly through tools. The way the human brain has evolved has left us prone to perceiving a threat whether false or true positive, combine that with a subset of people that may be hostile towards changeling that would no doubt produce anti-changeling propaganda(“How do you know your child hasn’t been replaced by a shapeshifter so they can feed of your love!?”) Having a tool which gives us the ability to see through the facade would help ease paranoia from the general population over time, I doubt the it would ever really subside.

@Badumsquish  
I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again: Changelings make the perfect pets. They only require love to live and they can look like whatever you want.

@jfluffy  
Humans are adaptable though, like changelings. We’d figure out a way to beat their shapeshifting, like glasses from They Live or something. At the same time, humans would see “Species that can look like anyone and feed on love” as the massive asset it is instead of “a threat” :D

@Badumsquish  
Eh, I think a subset of humans could be total bros with changelings. Shapeshifters would leave some people too paranoid to get along with them. But GMHAA gets along with everyone.

@jfluffy  
Humans and changelings would be total bros I think :D

>tfw you will never have a human that will invite you over to dinner.

@Brony_Conundrum  
That changeling would just turn into a giant tomato when they wake up and see GMHAA (A name I am finding harder and harder to not change to Gohma ) pressed up against them; not by choice, of course, but because the sunken mattress caused GMHAA to roll down the mattress and atop the Changeling.

@ShimmeringStallion  
“You okay there, buddy?”
 
“morbidly obese changeling noises”

@Badumsquish  
Cuts to an hour or two later, GMHAA can’t feel his arm and the Changeling’s side of the bed has DEEPLY sunken in. :P

@SuperSupermario24  

 
@Brony_Conundrum  
It’s just more changeling to love :D

@Background Pony #E8AB  
I have no words.